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Each page has a word in English that is highlighted, and in the illsutration on the page, the corresponding Chinese character is drawn. I was also a bit confused by the ending saying they had not caught the dragon, when they obviously had. Over a quarter of a million copies sold in the UK alone, this best-selling series is a staple in homes and schools.I enjoyed this more than How To Catch A Dinosaur but I wish there had been extra information about the cultural items and traditions mentioned in the poem, such as 'Fai Chun'.

Set during the Chinese Lunar New Year Festival, a boy and his friends try to catch a Dragon for Good luck, amidst the celebration.I was going to hold this off until next year at New Years, but I needed some 2019 books for this month, so I’m using it. Also, while I think it's great that the Mandarin version of the poem (both the symbols and phonetics) was included at the back, there is absolutely no mention that the language actually is Mandarin. The way these are written keeps tripping up my tongue, making me hesitant to want to read them aloud to a child.

We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. Her best-selling Princess series and Albie series have each sold over a quarter of a million copies and her books are published in numerous languages all over the world.

Harmless, but if there is a parable hidden in the dragon-taco tale, it is hidden in the unlit deep, and as a measure of lunacy, bridled or unbridled, it doesn’t make the leap into the outer reaches of imagination. Salmieri’s artwork is fitting, with a crabbed, ethereal line work reminiscent of Peter Sís, but the story does not offer it enough range.